Kevin Hughes

Summary:

Kevin L. Hughes is Professor of Historical Theology, appointed in both the Humanities and Theology departments. Teaching at Villanova since 1997, he was a founding member of the Humanities department, and he regularly teaches in both Humanities and Theology at the undergraduate and graduate level. He received his Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on history, theology and culture from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the early modern period, and he is a frequent commentator on Catholicism and contemporary culture.

Education:

• Ph.D. 1997 University of Chicago
• M.A. 1992 University of Chicago
• B.A., B.A. 1991 Villanova University

Publications:

Recent Publications

• “The Providential Failure of the Christianity: René Girard, Ivan Illich, and the Renewal of Apocalyptic Theology.” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 28:2 (Spring 2019)
• “Living in the Word,” solicited contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology (Oxford University Press, 2020), Chapter 5.
• “Strengthened for All That Will Delight Us: Love and the Metaphysics of Resurrected Bodies.” Saint Anselm Journal 12:1 (Fall 2017).
• The Sweetness of Nothingness: Poverty and the Theology of Creation in the Theology of Bonaventure, Angela of Foligno, and Meister Eckhart.” Spazio Filosofico 20 (December 2017), 307-316.
• “Eschatology.” Co-authored with Benjamin Winter. Chapter 7 of Bonaventure’s Breviloquium: A Reader’s Guide. Edited by J. Wayne Hellmann, Jared Goff, and Dominic Monti. Franciscan Institute Press, 2017. Solicited contribution.
• The Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture,” solicited contribution to T&T Clark Companion to Henri de Lubac, ed. Jordan Hillebert (T&T Clark, 2017), Chapter 8.
• “Ressourcement and Resistance: La nouvelle théologie, the Fathers, and the Bible, against Fascism,” in Reading Scripture as a Political Act, eds. Daniel Wade McClain and Matthew A. Tapie (Fortress Press, 2015), 219-38.

Areas of Interest:

• Ancient and Medieval Theology and Spirituality, Ressourcement Theology, Art, Literature, and Theology, Contemplative Studies, the Church in Public Life.

Honors and Awards:

• Cross Pro Pontifice et Ecclesia, received from Pope Francis in 2018 for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic higher education

Course List:

• Sum23-THL-1000-025 Faith, Reason, and Culture
• Sum23-THL-3250-025 THM Problem of Evil
• Sum23-THL-8445-025 THM Catholicism in History